Early in his 2019 freshman season, freshman Roman Celentano was low on the Indiana men's soccer goalkeeper depth chart.
But on October 1, Todd Yeagley took a chance on the young keeper, starting him against Northwestern. As Celentano went on to earn clean sheets in eight of the 14 remaining matches that year, Yeagley wouldn't regret that decision.
A sophomore defender at the time, Jack Maher had a front row seat to the start of Celentano's collegiate career, leading the IU defense alongside the new netminder.
"That's something that would have never had happened if you didn't have a guy like Coach Yeagley as the head coach because he took that big risk on his own shoulders, and we were very fortunate to reap the rewards of that," Maher said.